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Right now, Michigan's Republican Governor Rick Snyder is working on passing a so-called "Right To Work" law that would crush the state's unions and disempower its workers. Snyder is doing this in direct contradiction to his words earlier this year, when he said it wouldn't be "appropriate" to try to pass such a law.

Over at the Maddow Blog, Laura Conaway has a very interesting find. The so-called "Michigan Freedom Fund" (MFF) is running a commercial supporting the new anti-union law, and it features teachers in classrooms, and a young boy waving an American flag. Watch it:

Here's Conway's interesting find. Both the boy in the ad and the teacher in the classroom are parts of stock footage reels -- meaning that they are actors, and not even actors that Michigan Freedom Fund paid to employ. Rather, they are simply bits of reel footage. In fact, the same flag-waving boy was used in an attack ad that was aired against Democrat Rep. Peter DeFazio -- all the way out in Oregon.

MFF is trying to create popular support for the crackdown on unions, but it seems like it can't even find real Michiganders for its commercials. Recall that MFF is run by Greg McNeilly, who is an employee of Dick DeVos's Windquest Group. DeVos is a billionaire heir of the Amway fortune, and a major right-wing Republican donor.

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